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List:       xml-cocoon-dev
Subject:    Re: HTML editor widget (was Re: [proposal] Doco)
From:       Marc van Kempen <marc () bowtie ! nl>
Date:       2003-11-03 13:59:11
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Bruno Dumon wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-01 at 16:20, Marc van Kempen wrote:
> 
>>Bruno Dumon wrote:
>>
>>>On Fri, 2003-10-31 at 22:54, Marc van Kempen wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>>Bruno Dumon wrote:
>>>
>>><snip/>
>>>
>>>>>My first thought was to do this cleanup stuff serverside (could be as
>>>>>simple as an XSL, which would make it easily customisable too). However
>>>>>it seems like you want to do all that on the client side?
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>
>>>>This won't work, you need valid xml to use xsl,
>>>
>>>
>>>Ever heard of JTidy?
>>>
>>
>>Yep, I'm not 100% sure if I tried JTidy (I'm pretty sure though), but I 
>>did try the commandline program html tidy, and this crashed on some of 
>>the html garbage that Word spits out. The last release of the program 
>>was in 2000, so I didn't place a lot of trust in it.
>>
>>
>>>>and the IE html in 
>>>>particular can be very troublesome to fix.
>>>
>>><snip/>
>>>
>>>Thanks for sharing your experiences.
>>>
>>
>>No problem, are you interested in my offer, or shouldn't I bother 
>>discussing it (releasing my editor as open source)?
> 
> 
> Ah sorry, didn't pay attention to that. Of course I'm interested, but on
> the other hand I can't promise that we'll make use of it without ever
> having seen the code.
> 
> What would be included? Only client side code or also the server-side
> cleanup code?
> 

Both if there is interest. It consist of the following components:

- editor.js + images
   The implementation of the editor object and supporting images.
- js-gui.js
   Javascript gui components.

This will give you the editor,
(I haven't worked out the image upload problem yet, for now you can 
write a user-defined function and configure the editor object to use 
that function. A default function is provided that will take a list of 
images and let the user choose from it in a popup form.)

- HTMLFix.java
   html clean up component, accepts a text stream, spits out a text
   stream.

This component fixes the html, I also wrote a component that will remove 
unwanted tags and attributes (actually it will only leave those tags and 
attributes that you want, and remove all the rest). I'd have to cut that 
out of an existing component.

Actually I just discussed it, and we can release the components as open 
source (I believe the apache license is similar to the BSD license?)

How shall I distribute it?

Regards,
Marc.

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